Hair net



Patented Aug. 4, 1925.

UNITED STATES SAUL`OLINER, OF SHANGHAI, CHINA.

HAIR NET.

' Application led September 25, 1924. Serial No. 739,850.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that- I, SAUL OLINER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Shanghai, in the Province of Kiangsu and the Republic of China, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hair Nets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in hair nets and the like, and has more particularly reference to the manner of weaving such nets, whereby their use as an article of the coiffure is rendered less noticeable, by reason of the means employed to Y fashion them to the heads of'their wearers.

The invention refers more specifically to the kind of net known in the trade as a cap net, and it is one of the particular objects to produce a net of this type which has a substantially bag-like shape, by using a comparatively largesize mesh structure of uniform size, surrounded at its open ends with a series of comparatively small size meshes of uniform size, to hold the net securely upon the coiffure. Another object is to so knit together the largesized meshes, where they adjoin the small sized meshes that the desired bag-like shape is produced in a very novel manner.

To enable the means whereby I carry these improvements into effect to be readily understood, reference is made to the accompanying drawings in which- Fig. 1 is a diagrammatic side view of the hair net, showing a portion of the meshes only;

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary view drawn to a larger scale showing in detail the arrangement of its mesh structure; and

Fig. 3 is a diagrammatic view of a hair net, before the same is drawn together by the addition of the small sized meshes.

Like characters of reference denote similar parts throughout the drawings and the following specification.

10 is a hair net, designated ordinarily a self-adjusting cap net, composed of strands of hair 11. The major part of the hair .net is made of net work of relatively large mesh 12. At the eXtreme end of the net, surrounding this large sized mesh, are several rows of relatively small sized net work 13, 13a and 13b which, when knitted on, draw the outer part of the net together to assume the shape outlined in Fig. 1.

In knitting these nets which is done by Y hand, a central oblong part 14, as shown diagrammatically in Fig. 3, is first made up of rows of large sized meshes. These rows are knitted in a crosswise direction. Surrounding this large sized net work 14, in the usual net as heretofore made, is then knitted small sized meshes at 14". This consists of usually two or more rows, having the same number of meshes as the adjoining large sized rows. It is apparent that in such nets there is an excessive looseness at the rows of large sized mesh, immediately adjacent the rows of small sized mesh, giving the net a bulky appearance at this point and rendering it very noticeable.

In order to overcome these objectionable features, I knit several rows of large sized meshes around the central portion 14, indicated in the diagram in Fig. 3, as 14a, before I knit on the small sized meshes at 14h. I reduce these rows 14L which are composed of meshes of the same size as the central part 14, by one mesh at each of the four corners of the net where indicated by an X within a circle in Fig. 3.

I accomplish this in the following manner clearly illustrated in Fig. 2 which shows a fragmentary view of one end of the oblong central netting composed of large sized meshes, and which also shows several rows of the same size mesh surrounding it reduced in number of mesh in my novel manner, and several rows of small sized meshes at the outside of the net.

In detail, a, o, 0 and Z are rows of large sized meshes near the central part of the net, made up of strands of hair 11 in the customary manner, in an oblong shape.

Knitted around this net work composed of large sized meshes is the lower half of row e which has a loop 15 near one of the corners of the oblong portion, instead of being connected to the next mesh, led back to its starting point 16. Upon inspection of Fig. 2, it will be seen that by doing so, the next row f is reduced at this point by one mesh. The same method is also followed in row f. Loop 17 is led back to its starting point 18 which also reduces row g by one mesh at this point.

It is obvious that by eliminating two meshes in this manner, at each side of the oblong shaped net, or a total of four in each row when' folded over to make the bag-shaped cap net, a reduction is made in the shape of the net, with respect to its center, at the same time adhering to 4the. little noticeable large sized meshes.

Rows 7i, 7' and la of small sized ineshesare Y then knitted on all around the net, which draws the same together still further, and when folded along the plane of a medi-an line lengthwise through the oblong of the net, causes it to assuinethe shape common to cap nets.

` Itis obvious that by making the reduc tion inlineshes inrows' g and f, the fullness of the net, immediately above the small Asized meshes, is eliminated and at the same time the large sized'niesh is maintained, except at the -four points of reduction, and its in- `visibilityfas well as its self conforming' qualities totliecoiffure are greatly increased. -It is understood that various changes in the form, proportion and minorfdet-ailsof the net may be resorted to without departing from theprinciple or sacrificing any of the advantages otlieinvention, asdeiined in the appended claims.

What I claim as new, is: l; Ina hair net, having a central oblong ,portion Vof rows of relatively large sized meshes,` a plurality of rows of meshes, of the same size as the said-central po-rtion andlrnitted around it, having meshes dropped at* selectedV and symmetrically spaced positions in each row and in proximity to each-otherY with respect to adjoining rows, `and anuni` ber of rows of relatively small sized meshes immediately surrounding the pli'uralityV of rows of large sized meshes around the said central portion. Y i

2. In a hairfnet,consisting of acentral 4portion or" large sizednieslies and an cute'.n

portion of small sizedlineshes surrounding it, an intermediate portion of meshes of the Vsame size as in the said central portion, "interposed between the said central and outer portions, having a reduction in meshes at four symmetrically spaced points in rows u ofinore than one and in adj acently staggered relation to each other.

3. In a hair net having a central oblong part of `large sized meshes, an outer portion consisting of a plurality of rows ot small sized meshes, and an intermediate portion Vsurrounding the said central part and interposed between itand1 the 'said outer .portion, consisting oi' a plurality of rowsof mesh of the same size as in the said central part and having a reductioiiof mesh near Veach of the four corners of the said oblong central part, the reduction in mesh of one row-fibeing adjacent to that inthe adjoining row.

4. A hair net having an oblong major part of large sized meshes surroundedby aplurality or rows of small sized meshes, the said 'major part having in the rows of meshes, 

